FAQ
Questions, answered.
Everything worth knowing about the hourly ETH drawing on Robinhood Chain — what a ticket is, how the winner is chosen, and what this project is and isn’t.
What is $BALL?
A memecoin on Robinhood Chain with an hourly drawing attached to it. Holding the token is what enters you: every 10,000 $BALL in a wallet you control counts as one ticket, and at the top of each hour a single ticket is selected and paid the pot in ETH.
It is entertainment, not a product with a yield, a return, or a promise attached. Treat it accordingly.
How often is the pot drawn?
Every hour, at :00. The countdown on the front page runs against the next draw and resets the moment one completes. There is no off-season, no rollover schedule, and no manual trigger.
Do I need to sign up or connect a wallet?
No. There is no account, no connect button, and no signature anywhere on this site. The snapshot reads balances straight from the chain, so simply holding the token is the whole of the entry process.
How do I get tickets?
Buy $BALL on Robinhood Chain and keep it in a self-custodial wallet. Each full 10,000 tokens is one ticket; amounts in between round down. 35,000 tokens is three tickets, and the leftover 5,000 does nothing until it grows into a fourth.
Tokens sitting on an exchange or in any wallet whose keys you don’t hold are not counted as yours.
How is the winner picked?
Each draw commits first: eligible holders are read from a pinned block, converted into contiguous ticket ranges, written to a file, and hashed. That commit names a future round of a public randomness beacon.
When the round fires, the winning index is the beacon randomness modulo the committed ticket total, and the wallet owning that range wins. Because the commit predates the randomness, the entry list can’t have been arranged around a known result.
Can I check that a draw was fair?
Yes, and without asking anyone’s permission. Hash the commit file and compare it to the published tag, fetch the named beacon round, redo the modulo, walk the ranges, then match the result against the payout transaction in the block explorer. The verify page walks through it, and a script does all five steps in one command.
What are my odds?
One divided by the total number of tickets in that hour’s draw. Every ticket is identical, so holding more $BALL increases how many of the total you own — it never makes a single ticket more likely to hit.
How and when do I get paid?
Automatically, in ETH, moments after the draw. The pot leaves the prize wallet as an ordinary onchain transfer to the winning address. There is no claim form, no waiting room, and nothing to sign.
What is the pot made of?
The prize wallet accumulates over the hour and pays out its balance in ETH to the winning ticket. The figure on the front page tracks that wallet, so it moves during the hour and resets after each draw.
If I win, am I still in the next draw?
Yes. Winning doesn’t consume your tickets. As long as the tokens are still in the wallet at the next snapshot, you carry the same number of tickets into the next hour.
How do I avoid getting scammed?
Hold three rules and almost nothing can get you: never send funds to enter, never pay to collect a prize, and never trust a name where you should be checking an address. Nobody legitimate will DM you first or ask for a seed phrase.
Money only ever moves out of the pot, never into it. Any message that reverses that direction — asking you to send first — is a scam, however official it looks or however urgent it sounds.
How do I know I have the right contract address?
The address is published on the front page of this site and on our X account. Check both before you trade and compare the whole string, not just the first and last few characters — look-alike addresses are generated to match at the ends.
Names, tickers and logos are free to copy; the address is the only part that cannot be. Bookmark this site rather than reaching it from a search result or a DM, and treat an address that arrives any other way as fake until both official sources agree.
Are you connected to the official Powerball?
No. There is no affiliation with, endorsement by, or connection to the official Powerball, any state lottery, or any government-run drawing. The name is a nod, nothing more.
Is this legal where I live?
That depends entirely on your jurisdiction, and it’s your call to make. Rules on token-based drawings and prize promotions differ a great deal between countries and between states. Take part only if it is lawful for you, and only with money you can afford to lose.
Nothing on this site is legal, tax, or financial advice.
Still stuck?
Ask, or check the math yourself.
Every draw publishes what it needs to be re-checked independently — you never have to take an answer on faith.